| Emergency contraception (the morning after pill) is NOT the same as RU-486 (the abortion pill). |
| Advancing women's health by creating an environment in which the public and elected officials confidently support women's health policy. |
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|  | | | | | Healthiest Wisconsin 2010: A Partnership Plan to Improve the Health of the Public identified 3 goals for Wisconsin - one of them being to "Eliminate Health Disparities". This goal seeks to eliminate health disparities with a particular emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged population groups in Wisconsin. Elevating the health for populations most at risk elevates the health for all. Health disparities are best understood as significant gaps in health status and are the result of the interaction of many factors, both individual and societal. Some of these factors include age and gender differences, social inequalities, culturally inappropriate health care and education, inadequate financial resources, language barriers, geographic distinctiveness, the location and supply of health care providers, and insensitivity to sexual orientation or special health care needs. |
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| | | Elimination of health disparities is the driving force behind the Minority Health Program. It is also an overarching goal of Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 and is the standard set by most federal health programs in accordance with the 1998 President's Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. The Minority Health Program ensures that this goal is reinforced and instituted in departmental health policies and related statewide programs.
WI Minority Health Report |
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